Carol J. Michel - Author and Gardener
Award winner author of gardening humor books
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for August 2024. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, August is not the most flower-ful month of the year, but there are still plenty …
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A reader asked in a comment on my post about free plants how I get plants to self-sow in my garden. I came up with several reasons why I think I've been successful in getting some flowers to …
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I wanted to show you on December 7th that the Christmas roses, Helleborus niger, were blooming, and it was warm enough for a bee to visit! But Mailchimp, which is the service I use to automatically …
If you have a hellebore blooming now, or sometime over the winter, chances are it is Helleborus niger, commonly called the Christmas Rose because it usually blooms in the wintertime. Though …
The prize for the longest-blooming perennial in my garden goes to... Wait. Is it fair to award prizes for longest-blooming when some plants just weren't made to bloom over a long period of time, …
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What hides in the garden all summer and then reveals itself in the fall? Michaelmas daisies! You may know them as asters, or Asters. Or by their new botanical genus name Symphyotrichum, which …
